“If Jeb Bush is to be Romney’s running mate, it would mean that in seven of nine presidential elections there would be a Bush on the Republican ticket,” conservative pundit George Will said Sunday on on ABC’s This Week.
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From Anthony Weiner to Rick Perry, we’ve seen some ambitious politicians self-destruct before our eyes in 2011. Here are some of the nation’s biggest political winners (and losers) of the year.
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Rick Perry learned this weekend just how hard a presidential campaign is going to be. Despite a rip-roaring speech by the Texas governor on Friday, Perry was trounced in a presidential straw poll at the Western Conservative Summit — by Herman Cain.

The former Godfather’s Pizza CEO, who is a major threat to Perry’s drive for Tea Party support, received 48 percent of the 508 votes cast to just 13 percent for Perry.

The House Republican budget plan will be particularly harmful to Hispanic Americans, Texas Rep. Charlie Gonzalez said Wednesday — increasing their health care costs and slashing initiatives important to Latinos. In a conference call organized by the Democratic National Committee, the San Antonio Democrat said the budget plan authored by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., would “end Medicare as we know it” and raise health costs for poor and elderly Americans.
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